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Monangi NK, Xu H, Fan YM, Khanam R, Khan W, Deb S, Pervin J, Price JT, Kaur L, Al Mahmud A, Thanh LQ, Care A, Landero JA, Combs GF, Belling E, Chappell J, Chen J, Kong F, Lacher C, Ahmed S, Chowdhury NH, Rahman S, Kabir F, Nisar I, Hotwani A, Mehmood U, Nizar A, Khalid J, Dhingra U, Dutta A, Ali SM, Aftab F, Juma MH, Rahman M, Ahmed T, Islam MM, Vwalika B, Musonda P, Ashorn U, Maleta K, Hallman M, Goodfellow L, Gupta JK, Alfirevic A, Murphy SK, Rand L, Ryckman KK, Murray JC, Bahl R, Litch JA, Baruch-Gravett C, Sopory S, Chandra Mouli Natchu U, Kumar PV, Kumari N, Thiruvengadam R, Singh AK, Kumar P, Alfirevic Z, Baqui AH, Bhatnagar S, Hirst JE, Hoyo C, Jehan F, Jelliffe-Pawlowski L, Rahman A, Roth DE, Sazawal S, Stringer JSA, Ashorn P, Zhang G, Muglia LJ. Association of maternal prenatal copper concentration with gestational duration and preterm birth: a multicountry meta-analysis. Am J Clin Nutr 2024; 119:221-231. [PMID: 37890672 PMCID: PMC10808817 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajcnut.2023.10.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2023] [Revised: 09/29/2023] [Accepted: 10/16/2023] [Indexed: 10/29/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Copper (Cu), an essential trace mineral regulating multiple actions of inflammation and oxidative stress, has been implicated in risk for preterm birth (PTB). OBJECTIVES This study aimed to determine the association of maternal Cu concentration during pregnancy with PTB risk and gestational duration in a large multicohort study including diverse populations. METHODS Maternal plasma or serum samples of 10,449 singleton live births were obtained from 18 geographically diverse study cohorts. Maternal Cu concentrations were determined using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. The associations of maternal Cu with PTB and gestational duration were analyzed using logistic and linear regressions for each cohort. The estimates were then combined using meta-analysis. Associations between maternal Cu and acute-phase reactants (APRs) and infection status were analyzed in 1239 samples from the Malawi cohort. RESULTS The maternal prenatal Cu concentration in our study samples followed normal distribution with mean of 1.92 μg/mL and standard deviation of 0.43 μg/mL, and Cu concentrations increased with gestational age up to 20 wk. The random-effect meta-analysis across 18 cohorts revealed that 1 μg/mL increase in maternal Cu concentration was associated with higher risk of PTB with odds ratio of 1.30 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.08, 1.57) and shorter gestational duration of 1.64 d (95% CI: 0.56, 2.73). In the Malawi cohort, higher maternal Cu concentration, concentrations of multiple APRs, and infections (malaria and HIV) were correlated and associated with greater risk of PTB and shorter gestational duration. CONCLUSIONS Our study supports robust negative association between maternal Cu and gestational duration and positive association with risk for PTB. Cu concentration was strongly correlated with APRs and infection status suggesting its potential role in inflammation, a pathway implicated in the mechanisms of PTB. Therefore, maternal Cu could be used as potential marker of integrated inflammatory pathways during pregnancy and risk for PTB.
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- Nagendra K Monangi
- Division of Neonatology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States; Center for Prevention of Preterm Birth, Perinatal Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center Ohio Collaborative, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States; Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States.
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- Center for Prevention of Preterm Birth, Perinatal Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center Ohio Collaborative, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States; Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Center for Child, Adolescent and Maternal Health Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland.
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- International Center for Maternal and Newborn Health, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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- Biorepository and Omics Research Group, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical College, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
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- Research Division, Public Health Laboratory, Center for Public Health Kinetics, Chake Chake, Tanzania
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- Maternal and Child Health Division, International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka District, Bangladesh
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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- Child and Maternal Health Program, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), Faridabad, India
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- Nutrition and Clinical Services Division, International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Department of Women's and Children's Health, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, MA, United States
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- Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Division of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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- Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- USDA-ARS, Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, Grand Forks, ND, United States
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- Biorepository and Omics Research Group, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical College, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
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- Biorepository and Omics Research Group, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical College, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
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- Biorepository and Omics Research Group, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical College, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
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- Biorepository and Omics Research Group, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical College, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
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- Biorepository and Omics Research Group, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical College, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
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- Biorepository and Omics Research Group, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical College, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
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- Center for Public Health Kinetics, New Delhi, India
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- Center for Public Health Kinetics, New Delhi, India
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- Research Division, Public Health Laboratory, Center for Public Health Kinetics, Chake Chake, Tanzania
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- Research Division, Public Health Laboratory, Center for Public Health Kinetics, Chake Chake, Tanzania
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- Research Division, Public Health Laboratory, Center for Public Health Kinetics, Chake Chake, Tanzania
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- Nutrition and Clinical Services Division, International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Nutrition and Clinical Services Division, International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Nutrition and Clinical Services Division, International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- School of Public Health, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia
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- Center for Child, Adolescent and Maternal Health Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
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- School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi
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- School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi; Medical Research Centre Oulu, PEDEGO Research Unit, University of Oulu, Oulu, Pohjois-Pohjanmaa, Finland
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- Department of Women's and Children's Health, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Department of Women's and Children's Health, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Department of Women's and Children's Health, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States
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- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, United States
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Iowa College of Public Health, Iowa City, IA, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
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- Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth, Lynnwood, WA, United States
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- Child and Maternal Health Program, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), Faridabad, India
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- Geochronology Group, Inter University Accelerator Centre (IUAC), Delhi, India
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- Child and Maternal Health Program, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), Faridabad, India
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- Child and Maternal Health Program, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), Faridabad, India
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- Geochronology Group, Inter University Accelerator Centre (IUAC), Delhi, India
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- Geochronology Group, Inter University Accelerator Centre (IUAC), Delhi, India
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- Department of Women's and Children's Health, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- International Center for Maternal and Newborn Health, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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- Child and Maternal Health Program, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), Faridabad, India
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- Tu Du Hospital, Ho Chi Ming City, Vietnam; Nuffield Department of Women's & Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Center for Human Health and the Environment, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, United States
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- Maternal and Child Health Division, International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka District, Bangladesh
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- Centre for Global Child Health, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Department of Pediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Research Division, Public Health Laboratory, Center for Public Health Kinetics, Chake Chake, Tanzania; Center for Public Health Kinetics, New Delhi, India
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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- Center for Child, Adolescent and Maternal Health Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland; Department of Pediatrics, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
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- Center for Prevention of Preterm Birth, Perinatal Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center Ohio Collaborative, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States; Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States; Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States.
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- Center for Prevention of Preterm Birth, Perinatal Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center Ohio Collaborative, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States; Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States; Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States
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Mehta R, Qamar H, Monangi N, Zhang G, Combs G, Al Mahmud A, Islam M, Ahmed T, Muglia L, Belling E, Roth D, Landero J. Selenium Speciation in Paired Whole Blood and Serum Samples From Pregnant Bangladeshi Women. Curr Dev Nutr 2022. [PMCID: PMC9193807 DOI: 10.1093/cdn/nzac053.053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Objectives We aimed to characterize the relative concentrations of selected major selenium (Se) species in paired whole blood (WB) and serum samples collected from pregnant women at delivery in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Speciation analysis enabled differentiation of organic and inorganic Se, and quantification of the nutritionally bioactive reduced selenometabolite, selenoneine, which has been previously observed in WB from populations with high levels of fish consumption. Methods Paired WB and serum specimens (n = 515) were collected at delivery among participants of the Maternal Vitamin D for Infant Growth trial. Quantification of total serum Se and total WBSe was conducted using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Speciation analyses were conducted in a subset of pairs (n = 20) to quantify selenometabolites using liquid chromatography coupled to ICP-MS at the University of Cincinnati. Concentrations of inorganic Se (IV), selenoneine, selenocysteine (SeCys), selenomethioneine (SeMet) were expressed as % of total Se. We assessed concordance between results generated across laboratories using paired t-tests. Results Overall (n = 515), mean (SD) serum Se and WBSe concentrations (μg/L) were 70 (14) and 135 (18), respectively, such that average Serum Se as a proportion of WBSe was 52%. Findings were similar in the speciation subset (n = 20) [total Serum Se: 82 (19); total WBSe: 138 (18), with a ratio of serum Se to WBSe: 60%]. Sums of quantified species accounted for most of the total serum Se (72 (10); 88% of total) and WBSe (135 (16); 98%). Organic forms were predominant in both serum and WB: SeCys: 15 (2) and 20 (3); and SeMet: 54 (9) and 92 (13), respectively. Selenoneine was detected in WBSe at mean concentrations of 24 (5) μg/L. Together, SeMet and selenoneine accounted for 85% of the additional WBSe not present in serum. Inorganic Se was not detected in WB but comprised 5% of serum. Conclusions Approximately half of the Se in whole blood is in the cellular fraction. SeMet was enriched in WB and the most abundant form, relative to selenoneine which was not found in serum. Small amounts of inorganic serum Se may be artifactual due to freeze-thaw related degradation. These findings require confirmation in other settings but suggest that serum Se may not be a suitable biomarker of population status. Funding Sources BMGF.
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- Tufts University, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Ageing
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- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research
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- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research
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Haskell MJ, Maleta K, Arnold CD, Jorgensen JM, Fan YM, Ashorn U, Matchado A, Monangi NK, Zhang G, Xu H, Belling E, Landero J, Chappell J, Muglia LJ, Hallman M, Ashorn P, Dewey KG. Provision of Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements Increases Plasma Selenium Concentration in Pregnant Women in Malawi: A Secondary Outcome of a Randomized Controlled Trial. Curr Dev Nutr 2022; 6:nzac013. [PMID: 35317414 PMCID: PMC8929992 DOI: 10.1093/cdn/nzac013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2021] [Revised: 01/05/2022] [Accepted: 01/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Background Pregnant women in Malawi are at risk of selenium deficiency, which can have adverse effects on pregnancy outcomes. Interventions for improving selenium status are needed. Objectives To assess the effect of provision of small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements (SQ-LNSs) to Malawian women during pregnancy on their plasma selenium concentrations at 36 wk of gestation. Methods Pregnant women (≤20 wk of gestation) were randomly assigned to receive daily either: 1) iron and folic acid (IFA); 2) multiple micronutrients (MMN; 130 µg selenium per capsule); or 3) SQ-LNS (130 µg selenium/20 g). Plasma selenium concentrations were measured by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry at baseline and after ≥16 wk of intervention (at 36 wk of gestation) and compared by intervention group. Results At 36 wk of gestation, median (quartile 1, quartile 3) plasma selenium concentrations (micromoles per liter) were 0.96 (0.73, 1.23), 0.94 (0.78, 1.18), and 1.01 (0.85, 1.28) in the IFA, MMN, and SQ-LNS groups, respectively. Geometric mean (GM) plasma selenium concentration was 5.4% (95% CI: 1.8%, 9.0%) higher in the SQ-LNS group than in the MMN group and tended to be higher than in the IFA group (+4.2%; 95% CI: 1.0%, 7.8%). The prevalence of adjusted plasma selenium concentrations <1 µmol/L was 55.1%, 57.8%, and 47.3% in the IFA, MMN, and SQ-LNS groups, respectively; it was lower in the SQ-LNS group than in the MMN group, OR = 0.44 (95% CI: 0.24, 0.83), and tended to be lower than in the IFA group, OR = 0.54 (95% CI: 0.29, 1.03). There was a significant interaction between baseline plasma selenium concentration and intervention group (P = 0.003). In the lowest tertile of baseline selenium concentrations, GM plasma selenium concentration was higher, and the prevalence of low values was lower in the SQ-LNS group compared with the MMN and IFA groups at 36 wk of gestation (P ≤ 0.007). Conclusions Provision of SQ-LNS containing selenium to pregnant women can be an effective strategy for improving their selenium status.This trial was registered at clinicaltrials.gov (identifier: NCT01239693).
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- Marjorie J Haskell
- Institute for Global Nutrition, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
- Department of Nutrition, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Public Health, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi
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- Institute for Global Nutrition, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
- Department of Nutrition, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Institute for Global Nutrition, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
- Department of Nutrition, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Center for Child, Adolescent and Maternal Health Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
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- Center for Child, Adolescent and Maternal Health Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
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- Institute for Global Nutrition, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Division of Neonatology, Perinatal Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Center for Prevention of Preterm Birth, Perinatal Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center Ohio Collaborative, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Center for Prevention of Preterm Birth, Perinatal Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center Ohio Collaborative, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Center for Prevention of Preterm Birth, Perinatal Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center Ohio Collaborative, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Center for Prevention of Preterm Birth, Perinatal Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center Ohio Collaborative, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
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- Medical Research Centre Oulu, PEDEGO Research Unit, University of Oulu, Oulu, Pohjois-Pohjanmaa, Finland
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- Center for Child, Adolescent and Maternal Health Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
- Department of Paediatrics, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
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- Institute for Global Nutrition, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
- Department of Nutrition, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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Care AG, Gupta JK, Goodfellow L, Zhang G, Monangi N, Belling E, Landero J, Chappell J, Sharp A, Alfirevic A, Müller-Myhsok B, Muglia LJ, Alfirevic Z. Maternal selenium levels and whole genome screen in recurrent spontaneous preterm birth population: A nested case control study. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol 2021; 265:203-211. [PMID: 34534736 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejogrb.2021.08.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2021] [Accepted: 08/11/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To establish if low maternal selenium (Se) was associated with sPTB in women with recurrent sPTB and identify genetic link with maternal Se levels. DESIGN Nested case-control study. SETTING Tertiary Maternity Hospital. POPULATION Plasma and whole blood from pregnant women with history of early sPTB/PPROM < 34+0 and European ancestry were obtained at 20 weeks (range 15-24 weeks). 'Cases' were recurrent PTB/PPROM < 34+0 weeks and term (≥37+0) deliveries were classified as 'high-risk controls.' Women with previous term births and index birth ≥ 39 weeks were 'low-risk controls'. METHODS Maternal plasma Se measured by ICP-MS was used as a continuous phenotype in a GWAS analysis. Se was added to a logistic regression model using PTB predictor variables. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Maternal Se concentration, recurrent early sPTB/PPROM. RESULTS 53/177 high-risk women had a recurrent sPTB/PPROM < 34+0weeks and were 2.7 times more likely to have a Se level < 83.3 ppm at 20weeks of pregnancy compared with low-risk term controls (n = 179), (RR 2.7, 95%CI 1.5-4.8; p = .001). One SNP from a non-coding region (FOXN3 intron variant, rs55793422) reached genome-wide significance level (p = 3.73E-08). Targeted analysis of Se gene variant did not show difference between preterm and term births. (χ2 test, OR = 0.95; 95%CI = 0.59-1.56; p = 0.82). When Se levels were added to a clinical prediction model, only an additional 5% of cases (n = 3) and 0.6% (n = 1) of controls were correctly identified. CONCLUSIONS Low plasma Se is associated with sPTB risk but is not sufficiently predictive at individual patient level. We did not find a genetic association between maternal Se levels and Se-related genes.
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- Angharad G Care
- Harris Wellbeing Preterm Birth Research Centre, Department of Women's and Children's Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool Women's Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
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- Harris Wellbeing Preterm Birth Research Centre, Department of Women's and Children's Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool Women's Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom; Wolfson Centre for Personalised Medicine, Department of Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Harris Wellbeing Preterm Birth Research Centre, Department of Women's and Children's Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool Women's Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Division of Human Genetics, Center for Prevention of Preterm Birth, Perinatal Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Division of Human Genetics, Center for Prevention of Preterm Birth, Perinatal Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Division of Human Genetics, Center for Prevention of Preterm Birth, Perinatal Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Division of Human Genetics, Center for Prevention of Preterm Birth, Perinatal Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Harris Wellbeing Preterm Birth Research Centre, Department of Women's and Children's Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool Women's Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Harris Wellbeing Preterm Birth Research Centre, Department of Women's and Children's Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool Women's Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom; Wolfson Centre for Personalised Medicine, Department of Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Waterhouse Building, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom; Max Plank Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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- Division of Human Genetics, Center for Prevention of Preterm Birth, Perinatal Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Harris Wellbeing Preterm Birth Research Centre, Department of Women's and Children's Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool Women's Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Monangi N, Xu H, Khanam R, Khan W, Deb S, Pervin J, Price JT, Kennedy SH, Al Mahmud A, Fan Y, Le TQ, Care A, Landero JA, Combs GF, Belling E, Chappell J, Kong F, Lacher C, Ahmed S, Chowdhury NH, Rahman S, Kabir F, Nisar I, Hotwani A, Mehmood U, Nizar A, Khalid J, Dhingra U, Dutta A, Ali S, Aftab F, Juma MH, Rahman M, Vwalika B, Musonda P, Ahmed T, Islam MM, Ashorn U, Maleta K, Hallman M, Goodfellow L, Gupta JK, Alfirevic A, Murphy S, Rand L, Ryckman KK, Murray JC, Bahl R, Litch JA, Baruch-Gravett C, Alfirevic Z, Ashorn P, Baqui A, Hirst J, Hoyo C, Jehan F, Jelliffe-Pawlowski LL, Rahman A, Roth DE, Sazawal S, Stringer J, Zhang G, Muglia L. Association of maternal prenatal selenium concentration and preterm birth: a multicountry meta-analysis. BMJ Glob Health 2021; 6:bmjgh-2021-005856. [PMID: 34518202 PMCID: PMC8438754 DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-005856] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2021] [Accepted: 08/04/2021] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Selenium (Se), an essential trace mineral, has been implicated in preterm birth (PTB). We aimed to determine the association of maternal Se concentrations during pregnancy with PTB risk and gestational duration in a large number of samples collected from diverse populations. METHODS Gestational duration data and maternal plasma or serum samples of 9946 singleton live births were obtained from 17 geographically diverse study cohorts. Maternal Se concentrations were determined by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry analysis. The associations between maternal Se with PTB and gestational duration were analysed using logistic and linear regressions. The results were then combined using fixed-effect and random-effect meta-analysis. FINDINGS In all study samples, the Se concentrations followed a normal distribution with a mean of 93.8 ng/mL (SD: 28.5 ng/mL) but varied substantially across different sites. The fixed-effect meta-analysis across the 17 cohorts showed that Se was significantly associated with PTB and gestational duration with effect size estimates of an OR=0.95 (95% CI: 0.9 to 1.00) for PTB and 0.66 days (95% CI: 0.38 to 0.94) longer gestation per 15 ng/mL increase in Se concentration. However, there was a substantial heterogeneity among study cohorts and the random-effect meta-analysis did not achieve statistical significance. The largest effect sizes were observed in UK (Liverpool) cohort, and most significant associations were observed in samples from Malawi. INTERPRETATION While our study observed statistically significant associations between maternal Se concentration and PTB at some sites, this did not generalise across the entire cohort. Whether population-specific factors explain the heterogeneity of our findings warrants further investigation. Further evidence is needed to understand the biologic pathways, clinical efficacy and safety, before changes to antenatal nutritional recommendations for Se supplementation are considered.
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Affiliation(s)
- Nagendra Monangi
- Division of Neonatology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Center for Prevention of Preterm Birth, Perinatal Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center Ohio Collaborative, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Center for Prevention of Preterm Birth, Perinatal Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center Ohio Collaborative, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
| | - Rasheda Khanam
- International Health, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
| | - Waqasuddin Khan
- Biorepository and Omics Research Group, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical College, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
| | - Saikat Deb
- Center for Public Health Kinetics, New Delhi, India
- Research Division, Public Health Laboratory, Center for Public Health Kinetics, Chake Chake, Tanzania
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- Maternal and Child Health Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh, Dhaka, Dhaka District, Bangladesh
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- INTERBIO-21st Study Consortium, Nuffield Department of Women's & Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Abdullah Al Mahmud
- Nutrition and Clinical Services Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh, Dhaka, Dhaka District, Bangladesh
| | - Yuemei Fan
- Center for Child Health Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
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- Benh Vien Tu Du, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
| | - Angharad Care
- Department of Women's and Children's Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
| | - Julio A Landero
- Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
| | - Gerald F Combs
- Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Elizabeth Belling
- Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
| | - Joanne Chappell
- Center for Prevention of Preterm Birth, Perinatal Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center Ohio Collaborative, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
| | - Fansheng Kong
- Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
| | - Criag Lacher
- Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, USDA ARS, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA
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- Biorepository and Omics Research Group, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical College, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
| | - Imran Nisar
- Biorepository and Omics Research Group, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical College, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
| | - Aneeta Hotwani
- Biorepository and Omics Research Group, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical College, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
| | - Usma Mehmood
- Biorepository and Omics Research Group, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical College, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
| | - Ambreen Nizar
- Biorepository and Omics Research Group, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical College, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
| | - Javairia Khalid
- Biorepository and Omics Research Group, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical College, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
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- Center for Public Health Kinetics, New Delhi, India
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- Center for Public Health Kinetics, New Delhi, India
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- Research Division, Public Health Laboratory, Center for Public Health Kinetics, Chake Chake, Tanzania
| | - Fahad Aftab
- Research Division, Public Health Laboratory, Center for Public Health Kinetics, Chake Chake, Tanzania
| | - Mohammed Hamad Juma
- Research Division, Public Health Laboratory, Center for Public Health Kinetics, Chake Chake, Tanzania
| | - Monjur Rahman
- Nutritional and Clinical Services Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh, Dhaka, Dhaka District, Bangladesh
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- School of Public Health, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia
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- Nutrition and Clinical Services Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
| | - Ulla Ashorn
- University of Tampere, Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
| | - Kenneth Maleta
- School of Public Health, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi
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- Medical Research Centre Oulu, PEDEGO Research Unit, University of Oulu, Oulu, Pohjois-Pohjanmaa, Finland
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- Department of Women's and Children's Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK
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- Department of Women's and Children's Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK
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- Department of Women's and Children's Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK
| | - Susan Murphy
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
| | - Larry Rand
- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
| | - Kelli K Ryckman
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
| | - Jeffrey C Murray
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
| | - Rajiv Bahl
- Department of Medicine, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
| | - James A Litch
- Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth, Lynnwood, Washington, USA
| | | | - Zarko Alfirevic
- Division of Perinatal Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
| | - Per Ashorn
- Center for Child Health Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, University of Tampere, Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
- Department of Pediatrics, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
| | - Abdullah Baqui
- International Center for Maternal and Newborn Health, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
| | - Jane Hirst
- Nuffield Department of Women's and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Cathrine Hoyo
- Department of Biological Sciences and Center for Human Health and the Enivironment, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
| | - Fyezah Jehan
- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
| | - Laura L Jelliffe-Pawlowski
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
| | - Anisur Rahman
- Maternal and Child Health Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh, Dhaka, Dhaka District, Bangladesh
| | - Daniel E Roth
- Department of Paediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | - Sunil Sazawal
- Center for Public Health Kinetics, New Delhi, India
- Research Division, Public Health Laboratory, Center for Public Health Kinetics, Chake Chake, Tanzania
| | - Jeffrey Stringer
- Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
| | - Ge Zhang
- Center for Prevention of Preterm Birth, Perinatal Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center Ohio Collaborative, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
| | - Louis Muglia
- Center for Prevention of Preterm Birth, Perinatal Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center Ohio Collaborative, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
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